ANNIVERSARY WISHES

It was my sister-in-law and brother-in-law's wedding anniversary on Tuesday so here is the card I made.  It is using 'Elizabeth' stamp from Stampin Up which I have recently purchased and love, mixed with the flowers from 'Marry Me' stamp set from Stampin Up.  I also made an inside for the card to finish it off.

BEST WISHES

Another card the ladies made last week was a case of one that I made for my sister Janice last month.  I just changed the background embossing from gold to red tinsel instead.  i just love making the flowers out of card.  They look so effective and are so easy to make.

Last week I decided to use a stamp set that I haven't used for a while.  This is a nice technique of just cutting up an image and separating it on a background to make it more effective.  So the large stamped square was cut into 4 pieces and then mounted on green card.  Make sure that you don't mix up the images though or it looks a bit strage.  Keep them as a 'jigsaw' that fits properly together.

Scrunched paper background

The second card my ladies made last week was using a scrunched up paper technique.  You just screw up some printer paper really tight then open it up (but don't smooth it out too much).  Get one colour ink pad and smooth over the paper.  You will find that it only catches on the raised up bits.  Turn the paper 45degrees and smooth over with a contrasting colour.  Here we used pink and purple. This one should catch different raised up bits.  Just keep going until you have the desired effect.  Use this for any background as a change.

FOLDING CARD

Where do the weeks go?  I never have enought hours in a day!  I am trying to catch up a bit with my blogging so intend to schedule a few post over the next week so please feel free to pop by any time this week to take a look.

Last Monday the ladies made a couple of cards. The first one is using a different folding technique. Pop back in a couple of days to check out the next one.

LAST WEEKS CLASS

 I forgot to post last Monday's class so before I post THIS WEEKS here is what the ladies made last week!!

We used the top note die but only partially cut through so that the shape became part of the card.

 Here we made a lovely box using the top note die and the flowers were made using the Bigz fun flowers die foe the embellishments.

NEW BABY

My daughters friend gave birth to a baby boy last week, so I thought I would send her a congratulations card - made with all SU products of course!

UP,UP AND AWAY!

As many of you probably know my Sister-in-law is an avid crafter and we usually get together once a week to craft.  Recently it was her Son's birthday and she has already posted the card that she made him, so here is the one which I made for my lovely nephew.  If you want to check out Kates go to http://kraftsbykatemartin.blogspot.co.uk/

This Monday the ladies managed to make 3 cards 2 of which are similar but one has been used with corduanations cardstock and distressed with sanding block to bring out the pattern more.  I think this one looks particularly good.

AS you may know it was my birthday on Monday so I thought I would share a few cards with you over the next few days but also show you what was delivered via Interflora on Saturday.  These flowers were from my Son, who lives in Brisbane, Australia - how unusual they are.  they are called rainbow roses for obvious reasons!  The vase and chocs also came with them (the chocs lasted all of one evening!!!! - can't resist chocolate- aaarrrggg!!!!  Back to the gym today for  a DOUBLE aquarobics session.............